Can a diet soda cause cancer? My doctor says it does, especially since I'm fair skinned, everyone else say no.

Question

Ok, my friend asked this question here, and the majority of her results were no, but I talked to my doctor recently, and she said it does help produce cancer cells, and I don't drink diet soda b/c, well, one, I'm fair skinned, and two, I don't like the taste. I would really like to know, please help me and my friend out!

Answer 1

If it contains aspartame, yes. Check the ingredients. Aspartame also causes alot of other health problems, too.

Answer 2

If you want real answers, you should keep listening to your Dr and forget what people here say....except me! ;o)

I read about sodas and carbonated beverages helping to cause cancers to grow or spread. The carbonated beverages are putting carbon dioxide (what's inside the bubble) inside your body. Your body is constantly getting rid of that gas by exhaling but you are adding it into your body with soda and that can encourage cancer to grow. There have been studies that related heavy soda drinkers and cancer growth or spread.

I googled, "cancer soda" and came up with many results supporting and a few negating the claim.

I personally dont drink too much soda, not because of cancer, but becaue of too much sugar, diet sodas taste like crap, so...its BEER for me! (carbonated as well, but I drink MUCH less beer than I could drink soda)

Answer 3

Aspartame in large quantities does cause cancer. However it is also about 5 million times sweeter than suger so there is a very negligable amount used to sweeten. In my Biochemistry class we calculated that you would have to drink 3 cases of soda a day for over 10 years to have aspartame affect your own possible chance of getting cancer

Answer 4

Well it is circular logic but soda intake has greatly increased over the last twenty year (to the point people are drinking a half gallon of soda from 7-11) and cancer rates have steadily increased.

How could you possibly digest all that sugar and/or chemicals and it NOT do something to your body?

Answer 5

soda cause all sorts of diseases, and diet soda are the worst because they contain aspartame.



Processed human foods contain three primary brain cell toxins: glutamate, aspartate and cysteic acid. They are called excitotoxins
because they “excite” neurons due to their chemical similarity to neurotransmitters. Natural variations of glutamate and aspartate are in
fact found normally in the spinal chord, and are subject to a very delicate level within the body. Excess levels are immediately removed by
counterbalancing mechanisms that transfer excess glutamate back into surrounding glial cells, which surround the neurons and supply them with
energy. When the concentration rises above a critical level, they become neural toxins to cells containing receptors for them. Excessive glutamate
levels will not only kill the neurons with the receptors for glutamate but will also kill any neurons that happen to be connected to it, even if that
neuron uses another type of receptor. This fact is very important relative to the contribution glutamates and aspartates make toward
development of both Alzheimer’s syndrome and Parkinson’s disease.

Experimental evidence has shown that within 15-30 minutes after being exposed to excessive levels of glutamate, such as that
acquired by eating processed foods, neurons suspended in tissue culture swell up like balloons. The organelles begin to degenerate
and the chromatin begins to clump. Within three hours these neurons are dead. However, when lower doses of MSG are used for
two hours, and then removed, the cells remained viable for 18 to 24 hours, after which they suddenly died. Apparently, glutamate
acts as a trigger that opens the sodium channel on the cell membrane and allows calcium to enter the neuron, triggering an
enzyme called phospholipase C within the cell, which then triggers the release of arachidonic acid, damaging the cells interior. The
arachidonic acid is attacked by two enzymes called lipoygenase and cyclo-oxygenase, further triggering an explosive release of free
radicals (superoxide and hydroxyl radicals) which brings on cell death. The normal concentration of antioxidants in the brain is not
enough to handle the excess free radicals produced in this way.

Since humans concentrate ingested glutamate in their plasma in higher concentrations than any other animal, this fact must figure
into the equation as to why glutamates have been increasingly added to human processed food, despite scientific evidence presented to
Congress, in order to achieve the desired neurological degeneration in line with both Malthusian population reduction mandates, allopathic
fund generation and neurological behavior modification programs.

Answer 6

San Diego had a good answer. My advice: find another doctor, one who gives advice based on real scientific data AND common sense. Your doctor seems to be lacking in these areas (but then, so are many who believe weird stuff like this)

Of course, I'm assuming that you're not drinking 72 cans a day. If you are, your doc probably has a point. :-)

Answer 7

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Answer 8

The diet soda doesnt, but the sweeteners, like saccrine, can cause cancer.

Answer 9

I found articles saying yes and no. Here is one that makes sense:
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/060105_soda_cancer.html
I kind of think that we would not normally consume enough of a product to equate to the amount consumed in lab animals.
For good health, cut back on all soda and drink more water.

Answer 10

NO .. I've never heard that , that's all i drink is diet coke i don't even drink water that's because i don't like water though, so i sure hope it doesn't cause cancer